2007: The Year Ahead in Disability Studies

What's on the horizon in this new year? I've been taking a surf around to find some highlights--get your calendars and book orders ready:

CONFERENCES:
April 7-9
7th Annual Disability Studies in Education Conference
Chicago

April 11-13
150 Years on Kendall Green: Celebrating Deaf History and Gallaudet
Washington DC

May 31-June 2
20th Annual Society for Disability Studies Conference
Seattle

PUBLICATIONS:
Douglas Baynton, Jack R. Gannon, Jean Lindquist Bergey, Through Deaf Eyes: A Photographic History of an American Community (Gallaudet University Press 2007).

Brenda Brueggemann and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson, eds., Disability and the Teaching of Writing: A Critical Sourcebook (Bedford St. Martins 2007).

Hilary Cooper, Divided Portraits: Identity and Disability (Umbrage 2007).

Benedicte Ingstad and Susan Reynolds Whyte, eds. Disability in Local and Global Worlds (University of California Press 2007).

Paul Jacobs, Neither-Nor: A Young Australian's Experience with Deafness (Gallaudet University Press 2007).

Petra Kuppers, The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performances and Contemporary Arts (University of Minnesota Press 2007).

Raymond Luczak, ed. When I am Dead: The Writings of George M. Teegarden (Gallaudet University Press 2007, part of the Gallaudet Classics in Deaf Studies series).

Martin F. Norden, ed. The Changing Face of Evil in Film and Television (Editions Rodopi 2007).

Carol Poore, Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture (University of Michigan Press 2007).

Ato Quayson, Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation (Columbia University Press 2007).

Carol Thomas, Sociologies of Disability and Illness: Contested Ideas in Disability Studies and Medical Sociology (Palgrave MacMillan 2007).

Tanya Titchkosky, Reading and Writing Disability Differently: The Textured Life of Embodiment (University of Toronto Press 2007).

Watermeyer, Brian, and Leslie Swartz, eds. Disability and Social Change: A South African Agenda (Human Sciences Research Council 2007).

Weber, Mark C. Disability Harassment (NYU Press 2007).

NEW JOURNALS:
Journal of Literary Disability
Disability Studies and Special Education